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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] MMU notifier: invalidate_page callbacks using Linux rmaps
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:24:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080129142452.GH7233@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080129140345.GG7233@v2.random>

This should fix the aging bugs you introduced through the faulty cpp
expansion. This is hard to write for me, given any time somebody does
a ptep_clear_flush_young w/o manually cpp-expandin "|
mmu_notifier_age_page" after it, it's always a bug that needs fixing,
similar bugs can emerge with time for ptep_clear_flush too. What will
happen is that somebody will cleanup in 26+ and we'll remain with a
#ifdef KERNEL_VERSION() < 2.6.26 in ksm.c to call
mmu_notifier(invalidate_page) explicitly. Performance and
optimizations or unnecessary invalidate_page are a red-herring, it can
be fully optimized both ways. 99% of the time when somebody calls
ptep_clear_flush and ptep_clear_flush_young, the respective mmu
notifier can't be forgotten (and calling them once more even if a
later invalidate_range is invoked, is always safer and preferable than
not calling them at all) so I fail to see how this will not be cleaned
up eventually, the same way the tlb flushes have been cleaned up
already. Nevertheless I back your implementation and I'm not even
trying at changing it with the risk to slowdown merging.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -285,10 +285,8 @@ static int page_referenced_one(struct pa
 	if (!pte)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte))
-		referenced++;
-
-	if (mmu_notifier_age_page(mm, address))
+	if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte) |
+	    mmu_notifier_age_page(mm, address))
 		referenced++;
 
 	/* Pretend the page is referenced if the task has the
@@ -684,7 +682,7 @@ static int try_to_unmap_one(struct page 
 	 * skipped over this mm) then we should reactivate it.
 	 */
 	if (!migration && ((vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) ||
-			(ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte) ||
+			(ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte) |
 				mmu_notifier_age_page(mm, address)))) {
 		ret = SWAP_FAIL;
 		goto out_unmap;
@@ -818,10 +816,8 @@ static void try_to_unmap_cluster(unsigne
 		page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, *pte);
 		BUG_ON(!page || PageAnon(page));
 
-		if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte))
-			continue;
-
-		if (mmu_notifier_age_page(mm, address))
+		if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte) | 
+		    mmu_notifier_age_page(mm, address))
 			continue;
 
 		/* Nuke the page table entry. */

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 20:28 [patch 0/6] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V2 Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 22:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29  0:05   ` Robin Holt
2008-01-29  1:19     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 13:59   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 14:34     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 19:49     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 20:41       ` Avi Kivity
2008-01-29 16:07   ` Robin Holt
2008-02-05 18:05   ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-05 18:17     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-05 18:19     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 16:20   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 18:28     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 20:30       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 21:36         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 21:53           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 22:35             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 22:55               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 23:43                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30  0:34                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 19:55     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 21:17       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 21:35         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 22:02           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 22:39             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30  0:00               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30  0:05                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30  0:22                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30  0:59                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30  8:26                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-30  0:20                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30  0:28                   ` Jack Steiner
2008-01-30  0:35                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 13:37                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 14:43                       ` Jack Steiner
2008-01-30 19:41                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 20:29                           ` Jack Steiner
2008-01-30 20:55                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 16:11                 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-30 17:04                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 17:30                     ` Robin Holt
2008-01-30 18:25                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 19:50                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 22:18                           ` Robin Holt
2008-01-30 23:52                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31  0:01                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31  0:34                               ` [kvm-devel] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31  1:46                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31  2:34                                   ` Robin Holt
2008-01-31  2:37                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31  2:56                                     ` [kvm-devel] mmu_notifier: invalidate_range_start with lock=1 Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 10:52                                   ` [kvm-devel] [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31  2:08                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31  2:42                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31  2:51                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 13:39                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 19:35                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks for subsystems with rmap Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 16:28   ` Robin Holt
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 4/6] MMU notifier: invalidate_page callbacks using Linux rmaps Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 14:03   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 14:24     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-01-29 19:51       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks for xip_filemap.c Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 6/6] mmu_notifier: Add invalidate_all() Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 16:31   ` Robin Holt
2008-01-29 20:02     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30  2:29 [patch 0/6] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V3 Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30  2:29 ` [patch 4/6] MMU notifier: invalidate_page callbacks using Linux rmaps Christoph Lameter

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